TruckNutz Cause Stir in South Carolina

Fads are strange things. Back when I was visiting in Ohio, I noticed the strange trend of "barn stars," dimensional stars on the sides of houses, garages and barns. They're all over the place, and no one can really explain why they caught on, or what they're supposed to represent. Or why only stars are used, when you'd think the fad would spread to different shapes.

It reminded me of a similar fad many years earlier, when people all over Ohio decorated their doorsteps with concrete geese. I never figured out what that was about either, though I do remember one outfitted in a Madonna cone bra costume. Another head-scratching fad is TruckNutz, rubber testicles that people hang from their trailer hitches and bumpers. I don't know if they're big in Ohio, but they're causing consternation in South Carolina.

This is just too funny. Especially the serious tone of the reporters, who had to be giggling inside.

Truckers Protesting High Fuel Prices

Photo from source, Breitbart

There are lots of harbingers of doom as it pertains to the US economy right now. But truckers going on strike would be a deep wound. I think of my own city of Las Vegas, and how we'd get buy with no trucks. Not so well, I'm thinking. We might have to resort to Kentucky Fried Pigeon. Let's hope this doesn't ever get organized.

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Truckers Protesting High Fuel Prices

Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the road and others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices.

Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation's oil reserves. But the protests were scattered because because major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination. . .

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